What If the Problem Isn’t Your Pension, But Where It Has to Work?
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) estimates that a “comfortable” retirement in the United Kingdom now costs £45,400 (US$60,000) a year for a single person and £62,700 (US$83,000) for a couple. For many people approaching retirement, those figures are sobering…
Read MoreArranging Family Photos in Your Senior Years Can Bring a New Perspective and Purpose to Your Life
For most of my life, I looked at family photos as most others did – they were little snippets of time. I would pick up a few envelopes of prints and flip through the 20 or 36 photos inside, still safely ensconced in their designated sleeve right next to their…
Read MoreLook Tired? The #1 Makeup Step Women Over 50 Shouldn’t Skip
Have you ever done your makeup, stepped back from the mirror, and realized you actually look more tired than you did before you started? As a 60-year-old celebrity makeup artist, I see this all the time. Women over 50 often come to me frustrated that their under-eye concealer looks heavy, cakey…
Read MoreThe Retirement “What If?” Checklist Nobody Talks About
Most retirement plans assume life will continue more or less as it does today. We picture ourselves healthy, independent, driving where we want, visiting family, enjoying hobbies, and finally having more time to relax. I hope retirement looks exactly like that for you…
Read MoreThe Red Box Diet: It Really Works!
Gaining weight after 60 is easy, isn’t it? I have my own reasons for that: stress eating on top of a low thyroid Hashimoto’s condition. Add in a month of COVID (in 2026!), breaking my leg when my dog ran after a squirrel, and just for fun, I had a heart ablation that went wrong, very wrong. Then there was the cataract surgery by a doctor who assured me she never makes mistakes…
Read MoreWomen Over 60 Are Redefining the Real Estate Market
Women over 60 are a rapidly growing demographic of buyers seeking safety, lower maintenance, active social communities and family. Why? Over the years, I’ve helped many women over 60 buy homes in South Florida. Their stories are all different. Some were beginning a new chapter after losing a spouse. Others wanted to be closer to children and grandchildren…
Read MoreThe Complexity of Identity: Suddenly Jewish: The Life and Times of My Jewish Mother
My mother, Estelle, was born Esther Lanch in 1911 and raised in a Jewish household in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. From Odesa, where her mother was raised, to London and the Jewish communities of Montreal, New York, and San Francisco, the family encountered anti-Semitism in mid-Twentieth-Century America…
Read MoreCould Music Be One of the Most Underrated Medicines We Have?
Have you ever noticed how just a few notes of music can transport you back decades? Perhaps it’s the song you danced to on your wedding day. The lullaby you sang to your children. The music that played during your first love, your greatest adventure, or one of life’s most difficult moments…
Read MoreWhen I Go: Burial Options from Near and Far
One of the songs I have always loved is When I Go by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammar, written two years before Dave’s untimely death at age 49. We all have different beliefs about what happens after we die. We also have different ideas…
Read MoreHow to Dodge the Most Common Tourist Pitfalls in Italy
Who hasn’t fallen prey to at least several of the most common tourist pitfalls at some point during their travels? Being ripped off on a taxi ride, being overcharged at a restaurant, or simply being unaware of the need to book ahead – we’ve all been there. After all, there’s only so much research you can do before a holiday…
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